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11-20-2016, 05:02 PM #11Senior Member
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THey are just basically moving the sand where it was going to go if the pass wasn't there. It will move west a/o shift around fairly quickly.
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11-21-2016, 11:57 AM #12Senior Member
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Wonder who's picking up the tab for this mess total waste of money.
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11-21-2016, 02:21 PM #13Senior Member
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ALDOT (AL taxpayers in other words), as specified in the judges court order.
Originally Posted by Robert(Tato)Piteo
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11-21-2016, 02:36 PM #14We are there! Let's go fishing!!
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screen grab this am shows the scope of the hole they dug at the mouth of the pass.
Note there is already a sizable sandbar forming SE of the mouth...
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11-23-2016, 12:13 PM #15We are there! Let's go fishing!!
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The hole has been dragged out quite wide now and they are moving back toward the mouth where sand has shoaled inside the seawall on the west side...
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11-23-2016, 12:37 PM #16Senior Member
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Id hate to have my heavy equipment in that environments, cant last long with all the salt spray getting into everything.
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11-23-2016, 02:05 PM #17Dufus Tourist
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Being submerged in saltwater and sand can't be good for the undercarriage or any other exposed carbon steel. Originally Posted by CarlF
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12-09-2016, 11:41 AM #18We are there! Let's go fishing!!
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After the storms the pass reconfigured with a straighter (and slightly deeper) channel...
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12-09-2016, 11:47 AM #19We are there! Let's go fishing!!
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This am (Dec 9th) the heavy equipment is back out on the beach.
The east side this time...
By 10:45 am they are building some sort of driveway (I guess for the dump trucks?)
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All that digging and shifting is liable to upset the famous ghost shrimp grounds out there. Of course, if you could sift through a couple of buckets full from that backhoe--------
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Well, after several hours making phone calls, I was able to track down a certain manufacturer’s service center in California. Thankfully, they agreed to send out my needed parts. These were left over...
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